A biography for Florence Pughhasn’t been written yet.
“With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.”
“I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.”
“There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.”
“The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.”
“I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn't something that I grew up watching.”
“I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it's so hard - you're competing against your friends, and you're working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they're thinking.”
“Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.”
“If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.”
“My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.”
“I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.”
“It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.”
“I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'”
“I think you're always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, 'All right, at least I know that now!'”
“The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.”
“I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.”
“I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.”
“I don't think I'm going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I'm not going to be an international sex symbol.”
“During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson - two people I've looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.”
“I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.”
“I can't remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn't eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.”